There are plenty of reasons for concern with the health care reform bill the state Senate will take up today (some of them described in an op-ed on the facing page). One is so very typical of the Senate — an effort to “name and shame” employers whose workers obtain free health care paid for by the state.

Sen. Vinny de Macedo (R-Plymouth) has filed an amendment to strip the bill of that section, and his fellow senators ought to approve it.

Remember that Beacon Hill had already moved over the summer, to impose a financial penalty on businesses whose workers qualify for and sign up for MassHealth — part of an effort to rein in the cost of the taxpayer-funded insurance program that devours 40 percent of annual state spending. The Senate proposal expands on that effort, requiring a state health agency to compile an annual list of the 50 employers with the highest number of employees who receive medical assistance or benefits through the Health Safety Net Trust Fund. That includes individuals who are uninsured or underinsured.

The same 100-page bill ignores cost-saving reforms that Gov. Charlie Baker had proposed months ago to help rein in the cost of MassHealth. But hey, there was room to mobilize the employee coverage police.

The Senate bill has drawn criticism from insurers, who think high-cost hospitals should be pressured to charge lower rates; from high-cost hospitals, who think the Senate bill targets them unfairly; and from employers, who are unhappy that they have been forced to bear more of the cost of providing health care to the poor without accompanying reforms.

Usually when there is criticism from all sides it means a bill strikes a healthy balance. We fear the Senate bill does anything but.